试论消费社会中的“外貌主义”少女形象

A Study on the Lookist Young Girls in the Consumer Society

20世纪60年代以来的一批美国文学作品,刻画了一群对"性感美女"体貌极度渴求、对自己性成熟的身体过度焦虑的少女形象。借用美国心理学家玛丽·皮福的观点,此类形象可谓"外貌主义"病态少女,她们为了变得性感而愁肠百结乃至自伤自残。但这不是少女的错,这是消费文化的罪过。人们遵从消费社会的欲望逻辑,把性感少女当成了消费品中最美丽、最能发泄欲望的对象。本文对此文化现象进行了分析和批判。

The young girls＇ sexual problems have been the focus of narrative in a group of classic or popular American literary works since the 1960s. These works successfully depict a group of typical images of young girls who are eager to transform into sexy girls and extremely anxious about their ephebogenesis. Using ideas borrowed from a psychology research by Mary Pipher who is a famous psychologist in contemporary America, these young girls can be called the sick young girls who believe in lookism, that is, judging people by their physical looks. This article discusses the sexual narration about the young girls who try their best to be seen as sexy beauties to the ultimate anxiety and even self-harm in these literary works. According to the logic of human lust in the consumer society, the young girls are treated as most beautiful consumer goods to fulfill people＇s sexual urges.